Hacker News with Generative AI: SEO

$200k and still no recovery from Google's algorithm (medium.com)
This story comes three years of rebuilding a news website in the shadow of relentless Google algorithm updates, from organic search to Google Discover and Google News. We tested everything. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours trying to crack what now feels like an unsolvable problem.

SEO, Google Algorithm, Digital Marketing, News Websites, Website Optimization

29 points by arlattimore 14 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: I built a "GitHub for SEOs" to solve the portfolio problem (seofolio.co)
Stop taking endless screenshots that expire tomorrow. SEOfolio turns your SEO successes into a professional, self-updating portfolio. For SEO consultants and agencies that need to demonstrate results to close leads.

SEO, Portfolios, Tools, Business, Web Development

5 points by ivanramos 46 days ago | 2 comments

Adding Structured Data to a Rails Application (avohq.io)
When it comes to SEO, content is king.

Rails, SEO, Web Development, Structured Data

9 points by adrianthedev 54 days ago | 0 comments

Unix Pipeline Philosophy in HTMX + FastHTML Workflows (mikelev.in)
Future-proof your skills and escape the tech hamster wheel with the Linux, Python, vim & git stack (LPvg) including NixOS, Jupyter, FastHTML / HTMX and an AI stack to resist obsolescence. Follow along as I debunk peak data theory and develop Pipulate, the next generation free AI SEO tool.

Unix, HTMX, Web Development, AI, SEO

5 points by indigodaddy 78 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How to stop Google from autocorrecting our company name? (ycombinator.com)
Our small cloud consulting company Autimo has been facing a frustrating issue with Google searches. Whenever potential clients try to search for our company name “Autimo,” Google automatically corrects it to “autismo,” which is obviously not ideal for our brand.

Google Search, Brand Management, SEO, Marketing

14 points by woleium 83 days ago | 12 comments

Tell HN: SaaS Is the New SEO (ycombinator.com)
With advent of modern web and it's centralization, many niche platforms died.

SaaS, SEO, Web Development

12 points by achempion 83 days ago | 4 comments

Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO? (ycombinator.com)
Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO?

Startups, SEO, Content Marketing

14 points by the_alphalaser 113 days ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Gumshoe.ai – SEO for AI (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>We're Todd and Patrick, the founders of Gumshoe (https://app.gumshoe.ai/go). Between us, we have like 50 years of experience in early-stage startups. For better or worse, I helped build one of the original meme sites (ICanHasCheezburger), so it’s partially my fault that there are so many cat photos on the internet. Around the same time, Patrick built Starwave (which is now ESPN Fantasy Sports) and later cofounded UrbansSpoon.<p>We’re now building Gumshoe to help companies understand how AI talks about their brand.

SEO, Artificial Intelligence, Startups

36 points by sawickipedia 120 days ago | 21 comments

Google Quality Raters Guidelines Warns of Significant Scrolling on Recipe Blogs (seroundtable.com)
Another update in the revised Google Quality Raters Guidelines that was updated on January 23rd was that they added a section for recipe sites and said that requiring "significant scrolling" or making it hard to find the jump to recipe button is not a good thing.

SEO, Recipe Blogs, Google Search, Content Quality, User Experience

6 points by vincent_s 121 days ago | 0 comments

Google Says "Links Matter Less"–We Looked at 1M SERPs to See If It's True (ahrefs.com)

SEO, Google Search, Data Analysis

12 points by rapawel 123 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN We launched our first digital product – hard lessons as Indie Developers (alt-generator.ai)
Our plugin helps you align with EAA guidelines by automatically generating high-quality, accessibility- and SEO-friendly alt text in multiple languages.

Indie Development, Accessibility, SEO, Digital Products

7 points by alex_arc_nine 124 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: AI bots everywhere – does anyone have a good whitelist for robots.txt? (ycombinator.com)
My niche little site, http://golfcourse.wiki seems to be very popular with AI bots. They basically become most of my traffic. Most of them follow robots.txt, and that's nice and all, but they are costing me non-trivial amounts of money.

Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Security, SEO

61 points by scoofy 130 days ago | 32 comments

Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me? (ycombinator.com)
Say I'm running a SaaS product, example.com.<p>Somebody has bought several domains like getexample.com, buyexample.io, joinexample.net, and is 301 redirecting them to example.com.<p>What's their play here? Is this setup for a phishing attack in the future? Are they just going to try and sell the domains to me in the future? Not encountered behaviour like this before (or at least, I don't know if this is the beginning phase of a common scam)

Domain Names, Security, SEO, SaaS

382 points by HughParry 134 days ago | 131 comments

How to generate OpenGraph images with Astro and Satori (skyfall.dev)
Generating OpenGraph images for your Astro site is an easy way to increase click-through rates and make link previews more appealing. Here's how to set them up!

Astro, OpenGraph, Web Development, SEO, Image Generation

8 points by JustSkyfall 153 days ago | 0 comments

Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual (recleudo.com)
We’ve already seen how Finixio/Clickout’s assets were hit with serious penalties in the days following Google’s algorithm update. I have no idea whether those penalties were manual, or algorithmically applied, though I have a hunch they were manual. But they destroyed the ranking of pages that funnelled, collectively, millions of visits a month into a network of gambling and crypto sites.

SEO, Google Penalties, Gambling, Cryptocurrency, Online Marketing

187 points by fueloil 168 days ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Find Domains Fast (Prices, SEO, AI and Alerts) (indomain.co)
Find the best prices on new domains and renewals with inDomain, so you can keep your costs low and maximize your savings.

Domain Names, Pricing, SEO, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by ivarsmas 169 days ago | 4 comments

Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search (semking.com)
If you work in the SEO industry, you may be blinded by the lights. The noise can be deafening. You may trust most of Google’s official statements. Many in the search community blindly believe Google but I’m glad not everyone does.

Search Engines, SEO, Google, Trust

80 points by semking 172 days ago | 134 comments

Ask HN: Which website SEO analysis tool would you recommend? (ycombinator.com)
As a startup aiming to improve website rankings, which website SEO analysis tool is more user-friendly and effective?

SEO, Web Development, Startup Advice, Tools

7 points by hikerell 183 days ago | 9 comments

I tried to buy a guest post on TechCrunch.com (techcrunch.com)
A few times per day, I get a message that asks something along the lines of: “How much do you charge for a guest article on TechCrunch?” People are trying to get inbound links from TechCrunch for SEO reasons. The theory is: A link from TechCrunch gives your site trustworthiness in the eyes of Google, and so it’s worth doing. But is that what’s really happening here?

SEO, Content Marketing, TechCrunch, Digital Marketing, Journalism

9 points by glazskunrukitis 192 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: I built our SEO workflow into a simple tool for small dev teams (getpostie.com)
Generate high-quality, search-optimized blog posts with AI assistance. Built for small teams who want to attract more traffic with less effort.

SEO, Development Tools, AI, Content Creation, Marketing

10 points by heyinzyh 194 days ago | 8 comments

A Guide to Server-Side Rendering (builder.io)
Server-side rendering (SSR) has been around for a while, but it's worth exploring further. This technique can make your web apps faster and more SEO-friendly.

Web Development, Server-Side Rendering, SEO

5 points by misonic 198 days ago | 5 comments

They want your ethics for $105 (ntietz.com)
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes."

Ethics, Content Marketing, SEO, Blogging

116 points by zdw 222 days ago | 50 comments

Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way (ycombinator.com)
As an indie blogger and SEO enthusiast, I foolishly updated my robots.txt file to prevent indexing of certain unwanted parts of my site, leading to subtle repercussions that I couldn't have foreseen.

SEO, Web Development, Blogging

120 points by pyeri 224 days ago | 38 comments

The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In (larslofgren.com)
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money.

SEO, Business, Marketing, Web Development

13 points by deadcoder0904 225 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to Yoast SEO for non-WordPress sites (ycombinator.com)
We want to move our websites from wordpress to another CMS, and there are plenty of better options out there for our use case, mostly static web sites with a few updates per month.

SEO, CMS, Web Development, Static Websites

9 points by sails01 238 days ago | 6 comments

SiteOne Crawler – big tool with no users (siteone.io)
Free website analyzer and exporter you will ♥ as a Dev/DevOps, QA engineer, SEO specialist, website owner or consultant.

Website Analysis, Tools, Development, SEO

48 points by andrei-akopian 247 days ago | 17 comments

Google Cache is fully dead (seroundtable.com)
Google has now totally disabled the Google Cache from completely working. Earlier this year, Google removed the cache link from the search result snippets. Then a couple of weeks ago, added links to the Wayback Machine. Now, the direct link to see the Google Cache has been fully disabled.

Google, Search Engines, Web Development, SEO

440 points by r721 256 days ago | 238 comments

Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog? (ycombinator.com)
I want to create a simple, SEO friendly personal blog.

Personal Blogging, Web Development, SEO

19 points by canergly 260 days ago | 44 comments

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host (larslofgren.com)
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results?

SEO, Forbes, Business, Marketing, Journalism

646 points by greg_V 261 days ago | 299 comments

The Post-Jamstack Era: Just Use Rails (judoscale.com)
Let’s talk about ‘static sites’ / ‘public sites’ / ‘marketing websites’ — whatever you might call them in your organization. It’s your façade. Your company’s digital face. Where all of your SEO juice pours in and you hope that Google indexes favorably! That project that you probably don’t touch all that often, probably don’t want to, and yet somehow get co-oped into fully rebuilding every 2-3 years (why is that?!). You’re reading this on ours right now 😁.

Web Development, SEO, Marketing

38 points by multiplegeorges 266 days ago | 19 comments